Index: On Creative Writing Courses

Can Creative Writing Be Taught?
Creativity Bootcamp (28/9/04)
So You Want to Write Like Ian McEwan? (26/4/05)
The Painful Truth (20/10/05)
Prose ... on Prose to Emulate (28/8/06)
Anita Desai's Advice to Writers (15/10/06)
It's Okay to be Ambitious (4/11/06)

My Creative Writing Courses
Creative Writing Course (28/1/05)
The Course of Course (4/3/05)
The Last Night (8/4/05)
After the Storm (27/4/05)
Creative Writing Course Investigated (20/5/05)
Authenticity (22/6/05)
Writing Buddies (18/8/05)
Writing Crap and Loving It (30/8/06)

Other Benefits of Creative Writing Courses
Creative Writing as Therapy (9/5/05)

(Index last updated 5/11/06)

Index: On the Short Story

The Short Story

• Brief Encounters (3/10/04)
• Hillaire Belloc on the Short Story (1/11/04)
• A Shot for the Shorts (22/5/06)
• Save the Short Story Campaign (10/7/05)
• Goddess of the Literary Bordello (25/8/05)
• Food for the Mind - By Vending Machine (23/8/05)
• Small Gems (25/8/05)
• Interpreting the Story (8/1/06)
• Summer Stories (27/7/06) (some recent short fiction online)
• Resourcing the Story (20/12/06)
• Christmas Fiction (25/12/07)
• The Spirit of the Short Story, The Spirit of the Place (16/4/07)
• A Question of Length (11/5/07)
• Summer Shorts (13/8/07)
• The Passing of Grace Paley (25/8/07)
• When the Short Story Grows Up, It Wants to be a Novel (18/9/07)
• Filmmaker Takes Short Story Award (15/9/07)
• Darling Little Instruments (3/11/07)
• Believing in Your Story Collections (7/5/08)
• A Short Story is Like a First Date, A Novel Like a Marriage (23/06/08)
  

Writing Short Fiction

• Where Do Little Stories Come from, Mummy? (23/7/05)

Short Story Collections

• Domestic Women and Short Story Land (25/3/05)
• The Sound of the Future (7/5/06) (about Hari Kunzru's Noise)
• B-Reef Readings (28/11/05) (about Romesh Gunasekeran's Monkfish Moon)
• Between Pussy and Elephant: Gripping Social Reality (19/12/05) (about Rattawat Lapcharoensap's Sightseeing)
• Quirky Shorts (20/1/06) (about Etgar Keret's The Bus Driver who wanted to be God)
• License to Spin (6/7/05) (about Peter Ho Davies' The Ugliest House in the World)
• Decongestion Charge (1/7/06)
• Good Prayers, Great Stories (24/8/06) (about Yiyun Li's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers)
• Yiyun's Story (7/12/06)
• Little Book of Delights (31/8/06) (about Paul Auster's Auggie Wren's Christmas Story)
• The Spirit of the Short Story, the Spirit of the Place (16/4/07)
  
• Summer Shorts (13/8/07)
  
• Very Well Versed (15/8/07) (about the British Council's New Writing 15)
• The Passing of Grace Paley (25/8/07)
  
• When the Short Story Grows Up it Wants to be a Novel (18/9/07)
  
• Filmmaker Takes Short Story Award (25/9/07) (about Miranda July)
  
• Daring Little Instruments (3/11/08)
  
• Wena's Lions (5/2/08) (a review of Wena Poon's Lions in Winter)
  

Short short stories /Microfiction

• Write a Nanotale (24/2/07)
• Short, Shorter, Shortest (6/3/07)
• Sufian's Mission (30/3/08)
  

Malaysian Short Story Collections

• Giving Writers a Chance (18/5/05) (my editing experience)
• Welcome Reissues (3/7/05) (about Lloyd Fernando's stories)
• The Book Project (30/7/05)
• Best of Silverfish (4/4/06)
• The Birth of Neohikayat (14/4/06)
• SNW6 - Best Yet? (24/1/07)
• Another Dark City Ride of Terror (24/11/07)
• Guat's Old House (27/2/08) (a review of Chuah Guat Eng's collection of stories)
  
• Sufian's Mission (30/3/08) (about Sufian Abas' first short story collection)
• Silverfish's Full Stop (7/8/08) (review of Silverfish New Writing 7)
  

(Index last updated 6/4/08)

Index: Building a Nation of Readers

The Problems

• Depressing Picture of Book Sales (13/8/06)
• The Reading Habits of Malaysia : Some Stats (28/8/06)

Reading Campaigns and Initiatives in Malaysia

• Money Where the Mouth Is (20/11/05)
• A Nation that Reads ... (16/7/06)
• A City for Books? (4/8/06)
• Raising Rural Reading (17/9/06)
  

Reading Campaigns Elsewhere

Getting Kids to Read

• The EVO Approach (23/10/05)
• Why Schools Fail to Produce Readers (16/1/07)
  

Index: On the Local Writing Scene

• Issues
  

• Telling Tales (21/3/05)
• Giving Writers a Chance (18/5/05)
• Writers' Centre (19/5/05)
• A Lazy Colony of Silverfish? (15/5/05)
• Pitching In (30/6/05)
• Writers Don't Say No-one does Nuffink for You (30/6/05)
• Kutu Kutu (6/2/05)
• The Book Project (30/7/05)
• Toyols Steal the Reading Public (29/7/05)
• Representing Thailand on the Page (2/8/05)
• Recognising Local Writers (19/8/05)
• South of the Border, West of the Lit World (28/7/05)
• Is There a Market for Malaysian Fiction in English? (21/8/05)
• Write in English? Don't be So Disloyal! (22/8/05)
• Dream Ink at the Singapore Writers' Festival (5/9/05)
• The Silverfish Bug (18/9/05)
• Kee Principles (17/9/05)
• Local Writers' Manifesto (20/9/05)
• The Literary Landscape of Singapore (7/10/05)
• A Toast to Mr. Wong (13/10/05)
• Local Authors Outsell the Da Vinci Code (26/2/05)
• New Voices (24/3/06)
• International Literary Society for KL (4/7/06)
• Malaysian PEN? (5/7/06)

• Readings by Local Writers (at Darling Muse/ 67 Jalan Tempinis 1/ Maya Gallery/ La Bodega/ Silverfish)

• Readings at Darling Muse (5/1/05)
• Oh Darling Muse! (9/1/05)
• Saturday Perambulations (20/3/05)
• A Surfeit of Readings (17/4/05)
• A New Home for Words (22/5/05)
• 67 Jalan Tempinis 1 Strikes Again (22/6/05)
• Brown Sugar and Special Branch (26/6/05)
• Winning Wimmin (31/7/05)
• Captured! (1/8/05)
• Occasional Nudist Pumps Deltoids On the Road to Elvis (25/9/05)
• Painted Piggies, Winging Words (30/9/05)
• Nice One, Cecil (14/11/05)
  
• Inky Little Fingers (19/11/05)
  
• Rain and Readings (20/11/05)
• Pictures from Reading at Maya Gallery (24/3/06)
• Shirley Shines (25/3/06)
• Saturday in Photos (21/5/06)

• MPH Writer's Circle:
  

• MPH Writers' Circle (16/1/05)
• Distribution (20/2/05)
• Saturday Perambulations (20/3/05)
• Print on Demand (22/5/05)
• Tash Dash (18/6/05)
• One Aw-Some Day (26/6/05)
• Drifting Characters in Search of a Plot (16/7/05)
• Write a Novel in a Month (5/8/05)
• NaNoTechnology (21/8/05)
• Short Notice Writers' Circle (17/3/06)
• Round and Round in Circles (19/3/06)
• Saturday in Photos (21/5/06)
  
• Sneaking in the Fiction Agenda (16/6/06)
  
• Generating Income from Fiction (18/6/06)
• Self-Serving Great Grandmother's Dishes (15/7/06)
  

What This Space is For

This site is going to be a place for me to post the indexes I've compiled for posts on my main blog bibliobibuli. I may also use it to archive longer articles if I feel that they are in danger of disappearing from cyberspace, as well as useful reading lists.

It's my storage space, in other words.